Halloween, thanksgiving, and Madi

I can't believe that Madi is already 11 months! No one ever said that the 1st year would fly by this fast! Halloween was a huge disapointment for me this year as I got food poisoning friday night and had to stay home all day saturday. Joe and Madi were able to have a good day with his family trick or treating and enjoying time together. Madi was a monkey for Halloween. Grandma Angee made this awesome costume for her, she was sooo cute. This little fairy came to be after she raided the walmart bags I brought home. See a few days after Halloween all the costumes were 75% off. I raided some of the kiddie ones and got some cute dress up outfits for Madi for like a buck. I figured that she would enjoy them when she grows up but apparently even little ones can enjoy sparking wings and beaded necklaces. She's been wearing those beads non stop since.

We had a great Thanksgiving with the Haynies again this year. Grandma Hazel and Grandma Nona were able to join us and we had such a great time! Madi likes the turkey, sweet potatoes and olives and rolls. She did not however like mashed potatoes at all! Everytime Joe tried to give her some she would scoop them off her tounge with her hand and make a horrible face. It was very funny.
Early in October we took a family vacation to visit the Rich's in Austin Texas. It was the first time either Joe or I had been to Texas and I got to see my sister so it was tons of fun. The weather was a little cool for Texas but great for us as it was about 70 all week. We had a great time sight seeing and boating all week. Madi really enjoyed the boat and kept saying more long after we had left. She even enjoyed the tubing!Madi is getting so big. I can't help but wonder where my little baby has gone. She is now pulling herself up and trying to walk on her own. She thinks however that she needs to hold 2 hands before she can take any steps...(we are working on the confidence thing) She is definently getting better and we can't keep her still! She has mastered the stairs and now will not stay in the family room. I will say it is nice to have a little helper in the kitchen when I am cooking dinner! She also has become quite the little diva lately. She will now sit in the middle of the bed with all her cloths on it and dig through the piles until she finds something that she wants to wear. it pretty cute but I can only cringe a little to think that she is going to be just like me! The good news is that she will let me do her hair now! It is so cute she will sit on the counter looking the in mirror while I do it and then will clap her hands when it's all done. She also has 3 teeth and it growing like a weed!

10 month pictures

Precious..

Best Buds. The 2 of them will now follow each other everywhere. Madi will even bark at Bailee to get her to come.

Cheesy...

Trying to get happy pictures...it didn't really happen...

Its dirt..Its a hole...Its a House!!

Well our house is coming along well! So far they are about a week ahead of schedule and it looks like we will be closing around January 27th. After we close we have a few things that we need to get done and hopefully we will be moving in sometime the middle of February!! Here is it progression in pictures...

The first look at the hole

The foundation was pored!

Stairs and lumber delivered and basement is poured

11622 River Oaks Lane :)
Framing of the first floor and garage
Second Floor framed

Windows and a roof

It finally looks like a house but it is still very sureal that it is ours!!

First there was dirt....Soon it will be home...

So as most already know we have been house hunting for the past 6 months. It has been quite the process as we had a large area that we wanted to live in. Well that hunt has finally come to an end and here is the shortened version of the story...

We had been looking in about 6 different cities from Thornton to Aurora and Littleton trying to get closer to Joe's work. We hired a realitor who happened to be a good friend and I set out to find the perfect house. I can't even tell you how many weeks and homes we looked at and still we were coming up with nothing. I finally found 3 homes that I liked ( I won't say love but definently would work for our family) 2 in Aurora and 1 in Thornton. We took Joe to see the homes and the first one he thought was to old and the neighborhood was to old, then the second one was perfect except for the huge gaping crack in the front of the house. Then we started to look closer at it and it seemed as if the house was literally falling over! The huge crack went through the whole house. So then it was off to the one in Thornton it was a cute little house with no evidence of water damage or foundation issues. Well the only problem with this one was that there were tons of offers on it already. Well I was getting quite discouraged it seemed that all the houses we were finding either had HUGE problems or had so many offers that we would never get the house. We were also getting frustrated because our window of being able take advantage of the tax credit was quickly closing and with out that money we wouldn't be able to fix up any houses that we did decide to buy. After a lot of talking we decided to go out 1 more weekend and see what we could find and if we came up with nothing then we would go to plan B which was back to renting. So last saturday we were driving around waiting to meet with our realitor and came across some homes in Henderson that were being built by DR Horton. The sign said that they had homes in our price range, I didn't believe it at all but we went and looked anyway. To our surprise there was 1 house in our price range that was perfect for our family, we totally fell in love and decided that this is where we should be!

So This is what our house will look like! They got all the permits and will hopefully start building soon. They said that we will be able to move in by January and maybe even the end of December. I can't get the floor plan to get on here so if you want to look at drhorton.com and look in the River Oaks Freedom subdivision at the liberty plan and thats our house!

Well keep you all posted on the progress!!

9 months, Broncos, and Avalanche

Well it seems like every time I say I will be better about blogging it is another 3 months before I get back to it. ( Maybe I'll make that my new years resolution.)

Madi had a great 9 month check up. She is 20.5 lbs(78%) and 26in long (42%) so yes she is still short! She has started to crawl a bit but really loves to be standing and walk. She has been going to a little kids gym once a week and I think it is really helping her social skills as well as movement. She also FINALLY got her first tooth this past week which is great because she really has lost all interest in baby food and just wants to eat what ever we are eating. Her final accomplishment has been that she is now sleeping completely through the night! It really did only take her 3 nights of crying back to sleep for her to figure it out. ( I didn't believe that it could be that easy!!)

I am still working at the bank and things are going well. Joe's job is going great. He recently came home from his first business trip where he was helping out in another warehouse to get things organized like his here in Denver. His boss seems to be really happy with him and he is absolutely loving his job.

We took Madi to yet another Av's game. ( It will probably be one of the last for awhile) It was a fun game but also sad as Joe Sakic retired :( It was a great Cermony and fun to be apart of all the excitement!

Enjoy the pics!

goodbye toshiba…hello dell

So I have a happy sad day! I finally caved and bought a new computer. It is a sad day because I have had my toshiba laptop since I first went to school back in 2003. It has served me well for the last 6 years and it is sad to see him go.

Now a moment of silence……

On to the good news I have an awesome new computer! I can’t believe how much better and cheaper computers are now a days… Now I don’t have to worry about the computer crashing and taking all my wonderful madi pics with it!!!

The little things...

So I just finished making a batch of cookies, 4 batches of baby food, cleaned up, and had a few minutes all before Madi woke up and decided that she needed me! I feel so accomplished!!!!

This darn post...warning its a long update but with super cute pics

hey bailee want a treat?

hum rain on the tent... I think I like it

and snuggled and ready for bed

super baby ready for camping (7 mos)

I can play and see myself...

look at me I can play (7mos)

cheesy smile

hello you have a camera...

7 month cow shoot

lil diva

singin' (61/2 mos)

Swimming with Alyssa (61/2 mos)

the new pool!! (6 mos)

our new dino friend (read the sad note below) 6 mos

aunt crystal on the 4th of july (6 mos)

We had to stop the shoot to read a story to cow...

6 mos photo shoot

cousin alyssa! (6 mos)

First trip to the zoo (6 mos)

chillin in the new 5 mos

Bailee friend! 6mos

Great Grandma Nona Knighton (51/2 mos)

Uncle Danny and Aunt Jenni (5 1/2 mos)

So I have started this post about 6 times in the last 2 months but everytime I get it going Madi wakes up! So now I have started yet again at bed time instead of nap time in hopes that it might get done! ( so far we have had only 2 wake ups)

It seems like so much time has past that I don't even know where to begin. Madi had a great half birthday! We started the day with a trip to the doc. she got 3 more shots and had a great bill of health. She was 17% for height and 71% for weight!!

She seems to be learning and growing so fast. Right now her favorite is sitting up leaning forward and 'army crawling' just a bit then rolling over and squeling waiting for someone to pick her up. She also final graduated out of the newborn shoes so I can buy her real ones now. She loves her tennis shoes because they allow her to get more support when she stands. Yes she can now stand supported and is starting to pull herslef up on stuff. At this rate I think she will walk well before she can crawl. She also loves swimming and playing with the dog. (They have become quit good friends) She is also a great eater as you can tell by the stats. She also has found quite her voice and loves to "read" her books (you can tell how we read to her because she will make her voice loud and soft during different parts. She also has found a new love for the piano, we have to play piano music for her to sleep and she loves the fact that grandma angee's piano plays all by its self.

We have had a couple of good trips and visitors over the past few weeks, Madi was able to meet all her great aunts, uncles, and cousins over the 4th of July in Utah, her great uncle from England as well as her great grandpa tony and great grandma donna (Tiffany's dad's father and step-mom.) We also took our first camping trip. We were able to spend a few days in Estes Park. Madi is a GREAT camper, I think she slept better in the sleeping bag in the tent then she ever has at home. We had a lot of fun and since we had such a great time are looking at getting a few more trips in before the summer is over. We also have had a great time going to the Zoo, I didn't know how well she would like it but she loves the animals. The monkeys and elephants are her favorites.

I have a ton of pics and sorry that they aren't in here so fancy, I am horrible at this blogging stuff and am lucky to be getting it up at all!! Hopefully soon I will get better though as I am getting a new photo software sometime this week :-D

On a sad note we have to pay a small tribute to the little america dino :-(

If anyone has ever driven I-80 to Utah Little America is a staple truck stop. Forever you could get a 25 cent ice cream cone and there was always the big green sinclar dinosaur out front. Joe and I both have family pics on the dino and we even made the stop on our first road trip as a couple. We thought it would be fun to get another family pic this year. Sadly as we stopped we learned that someone had stolen the dino, yes stolen it!!!! so sadly madi doesn't get her pic :-( but we did find another guy to take a pic. with, he's not the same but I guess he will have to do.

As always I hope all is well and enjoy the cute baby!